I'll be bringing my massage table and drum for cranial sacral work and shamanic soul retrievals.
Anybody need to find their voice?
Dates: August 7-10, 2026
Place: Toledo, WA
Singing Alive is an annual, since 2007, summer gathering devoted to Gaian Folk-song circles. Singing Alive was born of a confluence of the song culture (rainbow, gospel, trad. Americana, Native Amer.) of back-to-the-land healing gatherings native to the Cascadia bio-region (Pacific NW), and the song-medicine of teacher-plant traditions world-wide. It has since grown to encompass a wide variety of singing people(s), including community choirs, devotees of contemporary spiritual figures (e.g., Amma, Prem Baba . . ), yoga (kirtan) communities. and light language enthusiasts.
At Singing Alive we teach, share, and invigorate the songs that travel thru this great circuit of like-hearted beings. We hold ceremonial space for the songs to do their healing work, to brew the melodic magic of collective singing. We are about bringing people together who feel called to awaken and nurture their spiritual life thru communion with songs (and prayers, chants, blessings, and so om) of celebration of life in this temple universe. Such songs clarify our lives, strengthen our communities, and foster personal and planetary renewal. At Singing Alive we gather to share them, and ourselves, in a safe, welcoming, and fun! environment.
Singing Alive is not a festival or a conference. It not an entertainer / audience event. There are no staged performances, amplification, paid musicians, nor vendors. It is a DIY-styled, highly participatory adventure in Gathering, a co-prayformance where we all sing (and eat) together, and work together to make this happen.
